NASA probing Chinese access to sensitive data

6:47 PM,
Mar. 20, 2013

Written by

Ledyard King
FLORIDA TODAY

Visitors from China and several other suspect countries will be denied access to NASA facilities until the agency finishes investigating its cybersecurity measures involving foreign nationals, NASA's administrator told congressional lawmakers Tuesday.

Administrator Charles F, Bolden Jr. announced the ban following the arrest Saturday of a Chinese researcher who once worked at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and may have tried to provide sensitive information to Beijing.

The researcher, Bo Jiang, is under investigation for possible violations of the Arms ...